Leclerc's Silverstone win seals Ferrari's 250th F1 victory at the circuit where it all began

Charles Leclerc won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday to hand Ferrari a landmark 250th Formula 1 victory — achieved at the same circuit where Jose Froilan Gonzalez gave the Scuderia their maiden win in 1951, driving a Ferrari 375.

The symmetry was not lost on Ferrari president John Elkann, who watched from the grandstand. “This is Ferrari’s 250th victory, and the first took place here, at Silverstone,” Elkann told Sky Italia. “It shows how important a day this is for our history and, above all, for the present and the future.”

“Great things happen when everyone works together at Ferrari, from our tremendous drivers like Charles, who drove a fantastic race, or Lewis, to the entire team, both in Maranello and here at the track.”

Ferrari have entered 1,131 Grands Prix since the championship’s inaugural season in 1950, converting more than one in five starts into victories — a win rate of 22.10%. Their nearest rivals, McLaren, have 203 wins, while Mercedes sit third on 138 but boast a significantly higher success rate of 39%.

For Leclerc personally, the result is a ninth career victory, all of them in Ferrari colours. That tally places him alongside Rubens Barrichello in eighth on the all-time list of wins for the Scuderia. Leclerc also holds 27 pole positions for the team — second only to Michael Schumacher’s 58, with Niki Lauda third on 23 — though just 15% of those poles have been converted into race wins.

The Silverstone result was Ferrari’s second win of the season, following Lewis Hamilton’s victory in Barcelona, and it trimmed 20 points off Mercedes’ advantage in the constructors’ championship. Ferrari remain second overall, however, with a deficit of 78 points to the championship leaders. In the drivers’ standings, Hamilton and Leclerc are placed third and fourth respectively.